Comments on HigherLevelLanguage

Just wandering in off the street, I kinda suspect that "higher" is not actually a well-defined concept for computer programming languages.

This, of course, could simply be a reflection of my coding ignorance.

-- RobinZimm 2008-01-13 18:15 UTC

But the concept has some meaning, doesn't it? Machine-language is lower than BASIC which is lower than LISP, for instance, I would presume ...

-- z 2008-01-13 18:22 UTC

Sure, of course. But is LISP higher than Ada or C++? Forth higher than Scheme? Prolog higher than Perl? All of these are higher than BASIC, sure, but natives of each could find xs missing from each other's worlds, because they're "higher" in different directions.

-- RobinZimm 2008-01-14 16:07 UTC